Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 08:03:08 -0800
From: "CAVEMAN -- San Bernardino, Calif. USA" cjcoker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CSUPOMONA.EDU
Subject: SoCal Freeways, Part II
Larry Horn briefly mentions freeways without names, that is, they only
have numbers. A perfect, but dumb, in my opinon, example of this is
California State Highway 259. How many people out there have ever travelled
on the 259? Can anybody even find it on a map? (Hint: it's in San
Bernardino, California, north end of town.) Okay, you can put away the
road maps, now, it's not on the map. The 259 is the connector road from
the northbound Interstate 215 to the eastbound State Highway 30. The 259
is probably all of 1/4 mile in length. Giving a connector road status as
a state highway defies all logic in my opinion -- sort of like Interstate
H-3 on Oahu, Hawaii (we used Interstate H-3 for drag racing in the 70s --
it was so short that there was never any traffic on it). BTW, why are there
Interstate Highways in Hawaii -- you can't even have Intra-state Highways
there.
Chuck Coker
I Hate Communting
CJCoker[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CSUPomona.Edu